Improvement in game devices



G; F. KEARNEY.

A GAME DEVICE.

No.'185,934 Patented Jan. 2, 1877.

wumzsses 6 A. WVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATEs GEQRGE F. KEARNEY, 0 GOEE NEW YORK.

IMPIROVEMENTIN GAME DEVICES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 85.984. dated January 2, 1877; application filed A October 14, 1876. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. KEARNEY,

of Gorham, in the county of Ontario and State purpose of enabling said ball to be used in" playing pool and other games.

The annexed'drawlngs show such a ball or.

block havingeighteen sides or faces. Eight of these faces are square and arranged with respect to one another like the middle parts of the faces of acubical block. These square faces are painted blue, as indicated by the black spacesin the several figures, except two opposite ones, which have, respectively, the appearances shown in Figs. 1 and 2that is, one of said fac'es,-A, has a white star, a,

in its center, and the other of said faces, B,

vhas three parallelstripes or bars, b c d -b heingred, 0 white, and d blue.

which are painted entirely blue. The remain ing ten facesiare sixsided. Five of them are white and are designated in the drawings by D, while E designates the remaining five,

which are painted red, as indicated by p'arallel lines. ,The arrangement of said red and white faces is'as follows: Taking the square face'A marked withstar, a for the top of the ball the first four horizontal six-sided faces are next below its four sides,:and are painted alternately white and red. Next below these four faces comes the middle or equatorial belt of faces, consisting of four square blue faces,

0, Fig. 3, designates one of the remaining six square faces.

already described, and four six-sidcd'faces intervening between the same. These six-sided faces ,are vertical, and one-half of them'are red andone-half of them are white, the white and red being arranged alternately, as before. Below this middle belt'come four or moresix sided horizontal faces which are alternately red and white like the first four; but the faces in this set that are directlybelow the white faces of the first set are red, and vice versa. Below these faces, at the bottom of the ball, comes the striped face B.

I do not, however, confine myself to the precise shape, arrangement, number, or colors of the faces above' described, as any of these particulars may be varied considerably without departing from the spirit of my invention.

To play five-pin pool with the above-described ball, place it on the middle of the table, spot the red ball, then play on either ball.

to turn up a red face, it counts one; if a white face is turned up it counts two; if a blue face is turned up it counts three. In like manner the striped face counts four; and the face with the star on it counts five.

' This many-faced ball or block may also be used in the American pool, three-square hi1: li'ards, and other games.

What'l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- i A block for gamesfsaid block being provid: ed with eight square faces and ten six-sided faces variously colored or otherwise'adapted to be distinguished, substantially as set forth In testimony that I claim the aboveI have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence 4 of two witnesses.

GEORGE FRANKLIN KEARNEY.

Witnesses J. W. KEARNEY, D. A. SoUTHEnLAND.

PATENT OEEIoE.

It'two balls are hit the carom countstwo. If the above-described ballis hit so as 

